The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 745 Prelude
On May 5, Dumbledore finally made the decision to launch a general attack on the Ministry of Magic in London. In order to prepare for the worst, Ryan secretly deployed the floating fortress above the Black Lake in advance, and unloaded a large amount of goods in the Black Lake under the cover of night and the floating fortress. Then he and Hermione rushed to Hogsmeade on the night of May 3.

The next morning, they got up early and started preparing. After breakfast, they rushed to the meeting room in the basement of the Ministry of Magic, which served as the temporary command center of Hogsmeade. At this time, Lupin and Sirius were already waiting for them there.

"You guys came really early. We packed up and rushed here, and didn't do anything else. I didn't expect to be later than you." Ryan said after hanging his coat on the hanger next to him. Today, he and Hermione were both fully armed, each wearing a set of light armor that had been processed with very complex enchantments and alchemy.

"We didn't go home last night." Sirius smiled and said, "We stayed here the whole night and slept in this conference room using the mattress we conjured up, for fear that something unexpected would happen."

"You've been working so hard." Ryan sighed softly and asked. "By the way, Sirius, didn't you say you were going to participate in the final attack on the Ministry of Magic in London? Why haven't you gone yet?"

"I wanted to go there." Sirius shrugged helplessly. "But Professor Dumbledore asked me to stay because he took away almost all the members of the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix in today's general attack. In order to prevent us from being attacked by surprise, I was assigned to stay and strengthen the overall defense of Hogsmeade."

"The principal is still a little worried!" Ryan thought, but this made sense. After all, his guerrillas and the new werewolves led by Lupin had always focused on group combat capabilities and did not highlight some of their members. In this way, in the eyes of ordinary people, Ryan and his team lacked top combat power except for a few people.

So when this important battle broke out, Professor Dumbledore still drew out precious combat forces and sent them to Hogsmeade to ensure that his rear would not be threatened by the enemy.

"It's better for you to stay. Hogsmeade does lack someone who can lead everyone to launch a counterattack. The training time for Professor Lupin's and I's subordinates is still too short. We haven't been able to cultivate true elites like you for the time being." Ryan said as he took out a small box from his space bag. When he opened it, he found a very thin black jumpsuit.

"In order to make up for the lack of combat power, I specially prepared some special props. Unfortunately, the shelf life of this kind of things is only about half a month, and it is also difficult to produce, so I can only gather them together and use them now." Ryan unfolded the jumpsuit and said, "Last night I asked the Weasley twins to deliver the batch of protective clothing prepared for London."

"What is the use of this thing that looks like a Muggle diving suit?" Sirius, who had studied Muggle culture seriously for a while when he was young, asked curiously after taking the one-piece protective suit. "Does it provide magical protection like your protective bracelet?"

"Yes, but it's more useful than you think." Ryan smiled and then pointed out the biggest feature of this tight protective suit. "This suit can resist a killing curse."

This was something Ryan and his team made after returning from Silvermoon City. Although this protective suit is very thin, it actually has a layer. Inside the layer is a slime monster that has been processed by alchemy.

When they were in Silvermoon City, they found that the health of the slime monsters was similar to that of humans, and they could be easily shaped like liquids. So they were inspired to develop this special protective gear. In the experiment, Ryan found that the slime monsters that were processed and stuffed into the interlayer of the protective suit could block a killing curse attack for the user as he expected.

However, since the slime monster can only play a protective role when it is alive, even if the alchemical potion is used to put the slime monster in a dormant state to maintain its life as much as possible, the life of the protective suit is only half a month. In addition, the raw materials are rare, which has led to Ryan's collection of protective suits for a war until now.

"This is a miracle!" Sirius said in surprise as he looked at the protective suit. He did not question why Ryan did not take out this thing before. In his eyes, it was amazing enough that such a thing could be mass-produced on a small scale.

"If this is a miracle, I still have 150 miracles here." Ryan poured out a small pile of protective clothing from his space pocket, "Now quickly distribute them to every combatant, because the situation this morning always makes me feel a little uneasy." "You are right," Lupin nodded. "In five minutes, Professor Dumbledore will leave Hogwarts for London. The next day will be the lowest defense level of Hogsmeade and Hogwarts during this period. It's always better to be vigilant."

After saying that, Lupin called a wolf in from outside the door and asked him to go outside to distribute the protective suits. At the same time, he and Sirius ran to the next room to change into the protective suits.

"It's pretty good after putting it on, and it's convenient for fighting." Lupin and Sirius changed their clothes and walked out of the next room. As soon as they entered the room, Sirius took out his wand, did a few movements and then commented. "It just feels a bit stuffy." As soon as Sirius finished speaking, an oil lamp in the room suddenly lit up.

"Professor Dumbledore has left Hogwarts." Professor Lupin said after the lights came on. "If everything goes well, the general attack on the Ministry of Magic in London will begin in five minutes."

"Let's get into battle positions now," Ryan said. "Put the entire Hogsmeade on the highest alert. I think the mysterious man and his elite men may appear near Hogsmeade at any time."

"You're right, we should take action now." Everyone present nodded, put on the hood of their protective suit, pulled up their masks, and finally put on their hoods and walked out of the room.

The guerrillas and werewolves who were sitting on the benches at the entrance of the conference room stood up after seeing Ryan and his team coming out, and followed them to the door. All the wizards who stayed at the Ministry of Magic drew their wands and bowed to Ryan and his team with the tips of their wands on their chests after seeing them.

"Commander, there are suddenly a lot of unknown magical reactions around us." Just when Ryan and his men returned to the ground, a guerrilla fighter under Ryan's command contacted Ryan through the alchemical props he had distributed before.

"What's the specific situation?" Ryan asked as he walked, holding a magic metal plate. "How many enemies are there? From which direction are they coming?"

But the next answer made Ryan and the others stop in their tracks, because the answer from the communicator was, "I don't know how many enemies there are, but the crystals you showed us now show that there are enemies everywhere, and the number is at least more than 3500."

"Everywhere!" "3500!" Everyone's face suddenly turned ugly, especially Ryan. Because he knew that he had prepared a lot of heart trees and reconnaissance methods from multiple worlds around Hogsmeade and Hogwarts for safety. And the detectors sent to the guerrillas before were connected to those reconnaissance points.

Voldemort may have his own way to avoid the detection magic of this world, but facing the mixed detection methods of multiple worlds, even the strongest Dark Lord in decades cannot avoid them all. This is why Ryan was able to discover that something was wrong.

"How much time does it take for the other party to get here?" he asked, holding the metal plate in front of him.

"In ten minutes at most, we will see them appearing on the outskirts of the woods," the guerrilla said quickly.

(End of this chapter)